All-Star competition tips off with card game

As if he couldn’t already open every door in The 6.

He first played in an All-Star Game, at the Garden, in 1998, one year after competing at the 1997 All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, two moments he recalled fondly.

It was essentially a coronation to the tune of Hotline Bling.

So naturally, when Butler did finally return Canada pulled away.

“We are doing these 10 events today”, said Mutombo. “It was a team effort”.

The game provided an excellent opportunity for Property Brothers jokes.

The league also announced its finalists for the 2016 Hall of Fame class: players Allen Iverson, Kevin Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Sheryl Swoopes and Yao Ming, Wayland Baptist University team, referee Darell Garretson and coaches Charles “Lefty” Driesell, Robert Hughes, Tom Izzo, John Mclendon, Bo Ryan, Eddie Sutton, Leta Andrews and Muffet Mcgraw.

Bryant says he would be fine playing just 10 minutes.

“Drake”, Davis said. “That’s all I know”. With San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich serving as coach of the West, assistant coach Becky Hammon becomes the first female to serve as an assistant coach in the All-Star Game.

Raonic wowed the crowd by squeezing in a dunk in the dying seconds of the second quarter to give Canada a 37-28 halftime lead.

It really was, in the end, Drake’s night.

“I’m looking around the room and seeing guys that I’m playing with that are tearing the league up that were, like, 4 during my first All-Star Game”, Bryant said.

Bryant was voted as a starter for the Western Conference, joining Kawhi Leonard of the San Antonio Spurs, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma Thunder and MVP Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors.

“Seriously, though, if I can get a little fast track on the citizenship, that would be great”, the American-born Butler added, per Casciaro.

So Zanzibar Tavern owner Allen Cooper was stunned when National Basketball Association representatives and a city bylaw officer showed up at his business on Yonge St., near Gerrard St., and started peeling posters from the windows on Friday. We brought this home for Canada. One reporter wearing a Bryant shirt presented his idol with a picture of different Nikes he had worn in his career and a Japanese reporter handed Bryant artwork of the basketball icon as a sword-wielding samurai dressed in a deep purple kimono.

He called Toronto a “cultural mosaic” and said being given the key has inspired him to be a role model for youth in Toronto. Chicago forward and former Lakers teammate Pau Gasol said “it will be emotional for me to see him”.

New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony says he hopes the owners and the players union can come to a new labor agreement without a work stoppage.

“I never, ever thought I would be a part of something like that, and now to be a part of it with – as we say – the Michael Jordan of our era, it’s going to be special”, Wade said.